It may be a more operational (business) role, but I think it will also be used to override anything not "Tippett approved" without Tippett having to throw his VP weight around. For example, if it existed last year, it could have been used to overrule Maloney on the "not trade for Dougie Hamilton" decision.
Possible future situation:
- Chayka suggests a player to trade for based on analytics
- Tippett likes Chayka's suggestion since it agree with his Tippalytics
- New AGM handles negotiations but recommends to Chayka that they not pull the trigger since the other team is asking too much
- Tippett is fine with overpaying since it is largely picks and prospects involved
- Chayka is not willing to overpay since it will affect our prospect pool down the road
- Drummond overrules Chayka and orders them to make the trade
- Chayka complies
I think that this is a fair statement to make, but let's also be honest - how many times do you think this is going to shake out where Tippett has to overrule a thought by Chayka? I think that you are talking the rarest of extremes here, but I could be wrong.
One element that I did want to have discussions on have been the talks about comparing what the Cardinals do from a management standpoint vs what the Coyotes do from a management standpoint. A lot of people bring up the article where Steve Keim and Bruce Arians are interviewed and the resulting information is:
1. The GM manages
2. The coach coaches
Does anyone really think that any organization puts its leaders in that much of a silo? I think that some posters hear these statements and believe it too much. There is no possible way that a GM and coach don't talk about things. Not doing so would be a disaster. I think that what these statements are actually saying is this:
GM and coach actually meet up to discuss things regarding players. What happened when Andre Ellington went down early? Are we to assume that only Arians went to watch CJ2K work out and Keim just read names off of a list of top RBs available? Or vice-versa? In reality, Arians and Keim probably viewed workouts together and formed a rough basis of who made the most sense. CJ2K was #1 in both of their eyes.
HOWEVER, once Johnson had been signed, Keim is not going to try and influence what he thinks should be done. He is the GM and did his due diligence as GM to sign Johnson (#1). Whether that means he thinks Johnson should get 30 carries, 15 touches, or just 3rd down back work over games is irrelevant. He can't tell Arians what to do with the player. So, he let's Arians coach (#2). They both understand how to separate that aspect.
This is what I would expect to happen any time a situation like this comes up. If someone on the practice squad is doing well and there is no need to sign an outside free agent, then Keim and Arians will come to that conclusion. If Arians or Keim feels that the practice squad player won't bring enough upside, then he lets his feelings be known and it will be evaluated. Same thing likely happened with the year that Palmer went out and the team had to use Ryan Lindley in the playoff game against Carolina. Both probably evaluated what it would be like to grab another QB off the wire. Favre had retired a year earlier, and he would have had about 10 days to learn the system. It was decided to keep Lindley in there. I doubt that was only Keim deciding that the financials wouldn't work or only Arians deciding that 10 days wasn't enough time. They probably both had some hand in that conclusion, but once the business decision was made, that was it.
Maybe there were some business hockey decisions that couldn't be agreed upon, and judging by people wanting to include Tippett's thoughts makes me wonder if Maloney may have even been the one to overstep his boundaries through too much or too little action.
